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Seeds To Save Lives From Starvation Caused By The Flood
My 40th birthday wish is simple (this boy in Kenya needs my help)
Today I turned 40 years old.
It’s such a surreal and humbling feeling... hitting a milestone like this.
Honestly, I’m just feeling so deeply grateful and happy as I look around my home today.
I can hear my boys playing in the other room...
And I’m just feeling so blessed that I have my health, my family, and more than I ever imagined I’d have when I was younger.
As I look back on these last four decades, I can’t help but feel an overwhelming sense of gratitude for the work I’ve been called to do.
I've spent so much of my life dedicated to helping people reclaim their vitality.
Seeing thousands of people transform their lives, overcome chronic illness, and find their way back to health has been the greatest honor of my life’s work.
It’s what gets me out of bed every morning.
In fact, I was just looking at a message from someone whose life was completely changed:
Seeing that kind of transformation...
Knowing that someone has their life back...
That is a gift that never gets old.
But even with all this joy and the success we’ve seen in our community, I can’t shake a specific memory from my mind today.
I wanted to share another photo with you that I’ve been looking at this morning.
That’s me, holding a little boy in my arms in Kenya.
His mother had just died two weeks after giving birth to him, due to malnourishment - the horrific effects of the famine there.
I kept thinking that I could have done more. What if I had come sooner, given more, rallied more support?
And now, this child has to somehow live without a mother, with a grandmother that is struggling to survive herself, who herself risks starvation,
who is now left to be the carer and provider for this child, who needs so much more than she can give.
Looking at his face, I can’t help but think of my own boys.
As I hit this milestone birthday, the greatest gift I have is the peace of mind knowing my children are safe.
They are fed.
They are healthy.
I know that when they go to sleep tonight, they will wake up tomorrow.
As a father, that is all that truly matters to me.
But the dads I met in these villages... they don't get that celebration.
Instead of planning a birthday, they are living with the suffocating fear of the unknown.
They don’t know if they will find food today.
They don’t know if their children will make it through the week.
I look at the boy in my arms, and then I think of my sons Asher and Arthur, who were once that same age.
The only difference between them is the place they were born.
I’ve walked these villages for over fourteen years.
I’ve sat with these parents and watched them reach for a single piece of fruit like it might be their last.
It’s a level of desperation that stays with you long after you leave.
That's why I'm writing to you today.
As I look at my life at 40... the best birthday gift I could ever ask for (and the only thing I really want)...
is to know that we’ve sent a lifeline to these families in their darkest hour.
If this image moves you the way it moves me, your support right now could be the literal answer to a father's prayer.
We can get emergency food to them in days, along with drought-resistant seeds and tools to help them rebuild their lives from the dust.
For context, a modest contribution can go a long way...
Something like fifty dollars will cover emergency food for a family...
Around one hundred twenty dollars will provide seeds that thrive even in dry conditions...
Or three hundred fifty dollars will combine food, seeds, and tools to help a family get back on their feet.
Right now, every contribution is being matched dollar-for-dollar by my company, so your support stretches twice as far on the ground. One dollar becomes two dollars, a hundred becomes two hundred.
We don't have weeks.
We have days before more kids slip too far.
Please give today while we can change things for these people.
Also, feel free to reply and send a birthday wish and a message of hope that I will send to the beautiful people of Kenya today.
Help me give these families a fighting chance, I'd be so grateful.
Check and this video, and help these families in Kenya now
Thank you for being someone who cares when it counts.